A Fresh Start at a New Site! (Basking Ridge Week 3)

Independence Day has come and gone, but the fireworks continued on this week at International Ivy’s Basking Ridge location! A whole new team of teachers and counselors have arrived to add their talents to the Ivy roster, and a whole new group of campers were eager to meet them!

Our site is pretty small compared to some of the other Ivy campuses this summer, but that gives us plenty of time to hang out with the campers! Yesterday we hosted a game of “Sharks and Minnows”, today our counselors beat the heat with “Connect 4” and “Blockus”, and a couple campers even got to try their hand at the world’s oldest board game against our site director (he lost!).

But the fun wasn’t limited to break — we have four awesome classes going on this week, including Math of Money, Vex IQ Robotics, and our new Digital Art class. Before using the iPad and stylus, these artists tried their hand at making door signs for their classroom. If they are this good now, we can’t wait to see what they come up with by the end of the week!

Of course, our biggest class by far is Youngsters: Left Brain Mix, which gives our youngest campers a chance to test out their powers of logic and math. This includes playing strategy games, tightening up math skills, and (perhaps most fun of all!) building and programming LEGO creations.

All in all, the summer is off to a great start, and we can’t wait to see how Basking Ridge’s classes grow!